5 big truths about the Supreme Court's gutting of Roe

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The Supreme Court is the site of the new Forever War, and Democrats had better start acting like it.

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Opinion | 5 big truths about the Supreme Court’s gutting of Roe
It's where all our political fights will play out, and Democrats need to treat it that way
10:24 AM · Jun 24, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/24/roe-supreme-court-forever-war/

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Like it or not, here’s the reality: The Supreme Court has become the site of a new political Forever War.

That court has now done what liberals insisted it would and what conservatives alternately prayed for and denied was their intention all along: Overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Now abortion can be outlawed, first in Republican-run states and perhaps eventually in the nation as a whole.

The best summary of what just happened comes from the dissent by the liberal justices: “The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them.”

Here are five takeaways from this political and legal earthquake.

1 The court’s decision is both straightforward and incredibly sweeping.

The decision written by Justice Samuel Alito flatly declares that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.” It rules that because a right to abortion is neither explicitly laid out in the Constitution nor “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” it deserves no protection as a fundamental right.

*snip*

[SWBTATTReg]

1. So, basically all medical procedures etc. not outlined in the Constitution are unconstitutional?

This certainly sounds like what they are saying. The framers of the Constitution didn't have any idea or the scope of what medicine can do today, certainly they wouldn't have made these procedures constitutionally illegal if saving someone's life involved brain surgery or the like. This reasoning is grossly wrong.

1 The court’s decision is both straightforward and incredibly sweeping.

The decision written by Justice Samuel Alito flatly declares that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.” It rules that because a right to abortion is neither explicitly laid out in the Constitution nor “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” it deserves no protection as a fundamental right.

[jeffreyi]

4. and who says abortion is not "deeply rooted"?

Abortion has always been around. Via pharmacological (herbal) or other means. I wonder if there is a comprehensive accounting of all the methods that have been used over the millenia.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I'm sure that there is, being that it's literally been around forever, for as long as there has been

humans around I am guessing.

[Jade Fox]

8. Exactly

[alwaysinasnit]

2. I think that this decision is proof that at least 3-4 commited perjury during confirmation hearings.

[LuckyCharms]

9. +1 I think so as well.

Not that anything will come of it though.

They'll skate on by. "My opinion has changed. My thinking has evolved".

It's infuriating.

[Wounded Bear]

3. K & R...good read...nt

[Meadowoak]

5. Just abolish the fucker.

[Nevilledog]

6. Restrict their jurisdiction to HOA disputes.

[The Magistrate]

10. A Clear-Sighted Gentleman, Ma'am